EFOST Surgical Techniques in Sports Medicine - Knee Surgery Vol.1: Soft Tissue, Vol. 1

EFOST Surgical Techniques in Sports Medicine ? Knee Surgery Vol.1: Soft Tissue provides orthopaedic surgeons with a collection of step by step surgical techniques for correcting soft tissue injuries of the knee commonly encountered in sports and orthopaedic trauma.

Each chapter explains how to perform a single surgical procedure in its entirety, from diagnosis, preparation, surgical technique to closure and rehabilitation, while also detailing pre and post-operative complications and how best to avoid them.

The practical, easy to use format makes this book an invaluable resource for all surgeons involved with treating orthopaedic and sports trauma injuries of the knee.

• EFOST ? easy to reference surgical techniques written in a simple stepwise format
• Easy to follow ?cook book? chapter style
• Easy to navigate content allows rapid review of techniques
• Large number of high quality colour photographs
• Written by highly experienced orthopaedic and sports trauma surgeons

1. Reconstruction of ACL using bone-patellar tendon-bone autograft
2. Reconstruction of ACL using hamstring autograft
3. Reconstruction of ACL using iliotibial band autograft
4. Reconstruction of ACL using quadriceps tendon autograft
5. Reconstruction of ACL without foreign materials: bone dowel method
6. Reconstruction of ACL with open physes
7. Extra-articular lateral tenodesis for ACL deficient knee
8. Reconstruction of the posterolateral corner
9. Reconstruction of PCL using a single bundle graft
10. Arthroscopic resection of the medial meniscus
11. Arthroscopic treatment of a meniscal cyst
12. Arthroscopic plasty of the discoid meniscus        
13. Arthroscopic meniscal repair: ‘all-inside’ method
14. Reconstruction of MPFL using hamstring tendon autograft
15. Reconstruction of MPFL with quadriceps tendon autograft
16. Repair of acute quadriceps tendon rupture
17. Surgery for patellar tendonitis: ‘jumper’s knee’
18. Complete arthroscopic synovectomy
19. Dynamic reconstruction of MPFL with hamstring tendon autograft

Henrique Jones MD
Clinical Director of the Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine Clinic, Montijo, Lisbon, Portugal

Tiburtius V S Klos MD PhD
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Director ICONE Clinic for Orthopedics and Sports Traumatology, Schijndel, Netherlands

François Kelberine MD
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Polyclinique du Parc Rambot - Provençale, Aix en Provence, France

Jamie S McConnell MA(Cantab) MBBChir PGCME FRCS(Tr & Orth)
Specialty Registrar, Royal Free Hospital, London